Peer Reviewed Open Access

This paper is reviewed in accordance with the Peer Review Program of IRA Academico Research

Social Stratification: A review of theories and conclusions

Brittani Sommer
Abstract
In ahead of schedule social orders, individuals shared a typical social standing. As social orders developed and turned out to be more intricate, they started to hoist a few individuals. Today, stratification, a framework by which society positions its individuals in a chain of command, is the standard all through the world. All social orders stratify their individuals. A stratified society is one in which there is an unequal circulation of society's prizes and in which individuals are organized progressively into layers as indicated by the amount of society's prizes they have. To comprehend stratification, we should first comprehend its starting points. The theories of the social stratification have been put light on by this work. Various conclusions for its present scene in the various societies have been conceptualized.
Keywords
Social stratification, social inequality, social welfare, social sciences, civilizations
Full Text:
PDF
References

Barkow, J. H. (1992). Beneath new culture is old psychology: Gossip and social stratification.

Cole, J. R., & Cole, S. (1973). Social stratification in science. University of Chicago Press.

Hollingshead, A. B., & Redlich, F. C. (1958). Social class and mental illness: Community study.

Kerbo, H. R. (2006). Social stratification.

Lenski, G. E. (1966). Power and privilege: A theory of social stratification. UNC Press Books.

Parsons, T. (1940). An analytical approach to the theory of social stratification.American Journal of Sociology, 841-862.

Parsons, T. (1953). A revised analytical approach to the theory of social stratification. New York.

Rosen, B. C. (1956). The achievement syndrome: A psychocultural dimension of social stratification. American Sociological Review, 203-211.

Tumin, M. M. (1967). Social stratification (Vol. 5). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.


©IRA Academico Research & its authors
This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. This article can be used for non-commercial purposes. Mentioning of the publication source is mandatory while referring this article in any future works.